The girlfriend, Ponsiri Limpawutthipong, 37, called police to her house on Sri Suthat Rd, on the east side of Phuket Town, at 5:30am today (Feb 15).
Responding to the call were Phuket City Police Chief Col Sarawut Chuprasit along with Deputy Chief Lt Col Chatchai Chunu and other high-level Phuket City Police officers.
The officers at the scene arrived to find Ms Ponsiri’s silver Toyota sedan in front of the house with a bullet hole in the top-right of the windscreen, close to where the driver sits, and another through the back-left window,
Police also found an 11mm bullet casing and one 11 mm bullet head, which forensic police collected as evidence.
Ms Ponsiri named the person who shot her car as her ex-boyfriend Chanin ‘Tum’ Jeerasatchakul, 41.
“After he had shot my car, he threatened me and then fled,” she said.
Officers are now searching for Mr Chanin in order to press charges for the incident, police reported.